The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-15
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.


SEEATE-A resolution was killed on the 5ti
empowering Senator Jones to introduce bill
forbidding the issuing OF free railway passes 20
members OF the Legislature, elective State on.
GERS and Judges of courts on record Assembly
bills were concurred in making the blacklist
ing of employees by employers, or any combina-
ZION OF the latter to keep the former from work,
misdemeanor. punishable by Imprisonment
in the county jail for period not to exceed one
month, line of not less than $50, or both; pro-
v1ding for the removal by county Judges OF
children from their parents or guardians where
the latter are dissolute or incapable of sup.
porting them, and making it misdemeanor
for such parents 70 retake the children unIaw-
fully
AssEMBLY-The business transacted was of
local character.
SENATE-A bill was killed on the 9th pro-
hibiting State aid to such agricultural soci-
cites as pay their premiums in full. a bill was
introduced empowering the Governor to make
settlement With persons injured in the Capitol
calamity by paying to each such a sum as is
just and to the widow of each one killed $780,
Bills were killed taxing express companies four
per cent. on gross earnings, and for the ap-
pointment Of a commissioner at salary of
$1,000 per year, to reside in New York for the
purpose of aiding worthy emigrants to reach
Wisconsin. report in favor of final adjourn
ment on April Is was presented.
AssEMBLY&-Bills were concurred in making
counties and municipalities liable for damages
for harm to persons and property during riots;
making the maximum penalty for keeping a
house Of ill-fame or to knowingly lease prem
ises for immoral purposes, three years i'm
prlsonment in the State prison; making the
wrongful wearing of Grand Army badges mis-.
demeanor, punishable by Imprisonment of not
more than thirty days, orby fine not exceed.
ing $50 or both. Bills were passed appropriat.
ing $4,000 for two years ending January /, 1889,
to the State Board of Health to suppress the
introduction or spread of contagious diseases in
the State Ind appropriating $500 annually to
each agricultural and industrial society, though
not to more than two in each county, which
prohibits gambling and liquor selling on its
grounds.
SENATE-On the 18th the Assembly resolution
was concurred in for the appointment of COM
mittee to ascertain the best means OF employ
ing prisoners in the State prison and to report
to the Legislature in 1889. Assembly bills
were concurred in giving local authorities
power to regulate auctions and auctioneers,
making it misdemeanor to kill birds for
millinery purposes, punishable by fine of
from IS to 800, one-half to go to the informer;
providing that the treasurer of each town shall
annually withhold from the several school dis
tricts of his town one-twentieth of the school
fund income together with one-ffth or all
county and town taxes annually issued to Sc
cure said income fund.- the money to be ex-
pended in the purchase of school libraries.
bill was reported providing for the reappor-
tionment of the State into Assembly districts.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed to permanent
ly]ocate the State fair at Milwaukee, and max
ing all employers, except employers of domes-
tic servants and farm hands, responsible for in
1uries resulting to employees from the careless
ness or negligence of co-employes. The Joint
resolution providing for the submission to the
people of an amendment to the constitution al
lowing less than the full number of jury to re-
turn verdict was killed. The Senate resolu-
ton was concurred in for adjournment of the
Legislature sine die April Is.
SENATE-On the 8th the bill to reapportion
the State into Senate and Assembly districts
was passed. The following bills were con-
Cured in: To prevent forcible interference with
persons employed at lawful labor or with the
use or operation of machinery, and furnishing
each violation by fine of 500 or imprison-
ment for term OF six months in the county
jail, or both; appropriating $4,000 to the State
Board of Health for the prevention of Asiatic
cholera and dangerous diseases; prohibiting
boys under sixteen years of age from being
sent to State prison, and permitting them to be
sentenced to the State Industrial School at any
time till they reach eighteen years of age;
permitting counties to aid towns in the con-
struction Of highways. The Assembly bill was
non-concurred in abolshing the State Park
and compelling liquor saloons in country dis
tricts to remain closed from eleven p. m. to
six a. NJ
AsSEMBLY-Bllls were passed appropriating
$4,000 for the establishment of a school for
idiotic and feeble minded children, and about
$780, 900 to encourage the various agricultural So
cieties of the State; to reapportlon the State
into Assembly districts; to provide for the ad-
justment OF claims of those injured and deaths
caused by the fall of the south wing of the cap
itol approprating $4,000 for home for feeble
minded children; appropriating S160,00O to com
plete the new university buildings.
SENATE--On the 9th the bills to prevent aliens
from acquiring title to more than 320 acres of
land in this State, and to require railway COM
panies to cay stock in mixed carloads were
concurred in and the bill appropriating 50 1000
annually tc employ director for Washburn
Observatory was passed.
ASSEMBLY-The bill to authorize Milwaukee
to issue 100000 in bonds for new intake for
the water-works and for intercepting sewers
along the Milwaukee river was concurred in,
and the bill appropriating $1,000 annually to en-
ploy director for Washburn Observatory was
passed.
SENATB-Governor Rusk returned to the Sem
ate on the 18th with veto the bill authorizing
the loan of $4,000 of the States trust funds to
the Oshkosh militia companies for the purpose
of erecting an armory in that city, holding that
it was bad policy to so loan funds The Com
mittee on Education reported on the bill CIV
ing the university alumni voice in electing re-
gents by recommending that all regents be
made elective by the people. The bills making
appropriations to the various fair associations
of the State, and imposing heavy penalty
upon persons making false statements to the
relative to the value of their property
were concurred in.
ASsEMBLY-The bill which prevents any per-
son from voting in cities of 1900 and upwards
who has failed to register, and to require that
a registry be kept open until one week before
election, was passed. A resolution calling for
a State constitutional convention to consider
various amendments to the constitution was
killed.